Duchenne for Longevity

If you crinkle your eyes when you smile, you'll live past 50 :

When Harker and Keltner inherited the study in the 1990s, they wondered if they could predict from the senior-year smiles alone what these women's married lives would turn out to be like. Astonishingly, Duchenne women, on average, were more likely to be married, to stay married, and to experience more personal well-being over the next thirty years.

Story and Symphony

More aus Meister Pink :

To master story, digest these books :

Robert McKee : Story - ppl who've taken his $600 course have won 26 Oscars!
Bonnet :
Atkinson : Powerpoint
Garth Reynolds : Presentation Zen
McCloud : Comics (Idea/Purpose, Form, Idiom, Structure, Craft, Surface - a meisterpiece! 741.5 MCCL)

To master symphony :

Beethoven's 9th
Mahler's 4th - my verdict - crap
Mozart's 35th - Haffner - my verdict - crap. Shame on you Mozart.
Haydn's 94th - my verdict - crap
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture - now you're talking!

Better Design aus Daniel Pink

Read the following mags, for your own good :

Ambidextrous
Dwell
How
Print Mag
Real Simple
Oprah
ID Home
Metropolis

Also, check out Robin William's book for CRAP - Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity. (www.ratz.com)